One for those 'most anticipated books of next year' lists. Allan on Priest on Ballard and everything in between.

The early 2020s took us to the ocean floor. The ride is over. There’s no deeper to go. Now we have to step off the elevator and try to live in this place, however hostile it is to life. open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

RIP James open.spotify.com/episode/0IX7...

I envy families who love sports and watch them together instead of spending hours debating what to do. Spacing out on football and eating nachos sounds like heaven

On January 5th, we’re putting out the final post for 2025. In the meantime, we wanted to share a year-end image edition: open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

2025 was the biggest drag for movies. These were the only ones I enjoyed

open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla... Perhaps to save itself from the hive mind, humanity is fragmenting once again, breaking the Tower of Babel before some wrathful deity breaks it for us.

Nothing is more irritating than watching people post their faux-profound, cynical takes on Thanksgiving, especially the Euros, lecturing from afar like their ancestors didn’t flee their own collapsing realities to come here and help conquer the natives. Worry about yourselves

The rage bait has been taken, swallowed, digested. Rage is the sacrament of a church that’s lost its tether to the divine, a cleansing ritual that no longer cleanses but leads only to more rage, the ceaseless desire for the next hit.

The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.

a lot of demonic energy is surging out there today

If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more? open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more? open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥 This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥 1111press.com/the-squimbop...

In the end,you can’t turn your head from the flood and be spared its damage. And even in doing so, you sense something is being withheld. Like an Escher drawing of a man staring at the back of his own head, looking away fuses with looking in, until you can’t separate walking away from walking toward

If May was a month to regroup, then June is when shit hits the fan. The possible beginning of a world war lands on Friday the 13th, the same weekend as Father’s Day, my first as a daddy to my baby daughter. open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

Ocean Vuong is transgressive

6/13/25

THE INVERTED TOWER

"By far the most interesting and beautiful art book I've seen this year." -Paul Kwiatkowski aka Ghost Guessed aka @wakeisland.bsky.social

I think we’re winning

how to strategically and intellectually make a connection to the American pope with the new Ye song ?

Love these, thanks @wakeisland.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social for making them.

April edition of the Wake Island Substack is live open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. - David Burge

Let’s gooooooooo!

Don’t ask why I have this. I just do. Who wants it? XS.

what are we doing on this platform ?

Finally seeing Bohren & der Club of Gore tonight — huge bucket list show for me. Been waiting years for this one

The creep of normalization is a strange phenomenon to experience in real-time: to know how truly strange all of this is, and yet to experience that strangeness less and less intensely…Until strangeness is only a feeling that I know I ought to feel and yet not one I actually can

March edition of the @wakeisland.bsky.social Substack is live! wakeisland.substack.com/p/wake-islan...

“A wild spectacle to behold, like some dead-of-night sweepstakes show on the cable access channel of a nation-sized small town in an alternate dimension….” Read more at: tinyurl.com/yc6dumda

“when this aim supersedes the desire to tell a story well, it dooms the project. And when, as has happened here, the sensibilities are not those held by the actual audience, but by an idealised progressive one, the project becomes a condescending exercise in wish-fulfillment.”

Timothée Chalamet straight up lookin like Anne Frank in this Chanel ad